[vlc-devel] [PATCH] No ':pass' for http. msgid-count--

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 01 May, Christoph Miebach wrote :
> On 01.05.2013 22:12, Edward Wang wrote:
> >On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Christoph Miebach
> ><christoph.miebach at web.de <mailto:christoph.miebach at web.de>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >          "HTTP proxy to be used It must be of the form " \
> >    -    "http://[user[:pass]@]myproxy.mydomain:myport/ ; " \
> >    +    "http://[user@]myproxy.mydomain:myport/ ; " \
> >          "if empty, the http_proxy environment variable will be tried." )
> >    <http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel>
> >
> >
> >This makes the message less informative and reduces its value.
> 
> Could be. I was considering to add "[:pass]" to a different msgid
> that would then match exactly, but I was pointed at
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
> 3.2.1.  User Information
> 
> "Use of the format "user:password" in the userinfo field is
> deprecated.  Applications should not render as clear text any data
> after the first colon (":") character found within a userinfo
> subcomponent unless the data after the colon is the empty string
> (indicating no password). Applications may choose to ignore or
> reject such data when it is received as part of a reference and
> should reject the storage of such data in unencrypted form."

Then you should create a separate option, like for http access.

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